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Withering tech stocks tugged the broader market down today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hewlett-Packard fell 4.6% while IBM closed down 2.9%, Cisco dropped 3.95% and Google 5.9%—after that stock closed below $300 on Friday for the first time since January. The Dow fell 79.89 to 6,547.05. The Nasdaq lost 25.21, closing at 1,268.64, while the S&P 500 shed 6.85 to settle at 676.53.